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Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly two hundred years. Once life-supporting, the waterway now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this provocative book, scholars and environmentalists Gail Gunst Heffner and David P. Warners explore the watershed's ecological, social, spiritual, and economic history to determine what caused the damage, and describe more recent efforts to repair it. Heffner and Warners provide insight into the concept of reconciliation ecology, as enacted through their group, Plaster Creek Stewards,who together with community partners refuse to accept the status quo of a contaminated creek unfit for children's play, severely reduced biological diversity, and environmental injustices. Their work reveals that reconciliation ecology needs to focus not only on repairing damaged human-nature relationships, but also on the relationships between people groups, including Indigenous North Americans and the descendants of European colonizers.
Contents
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Discovered Ignorance: Recognizing the Problem 1. Ken-O-Sha's Geologic Past and the Plaster Creek Watershed Today 2. Earliest Watershed Inhabitants and the Arrival of the Ottawa Part 2. The History of Plaster Creek: Acknowledging Our Complicity 3. Interactions between the Ottawa and European Immigrants 4. European Settlement in West Michigan and the Impact on Plaster Creek 5. Worldview Contrasts and Ecological Fallout Part 3. The New Story of Plaster Creek: Committing to Restoration and Reparations 6. The Emergence of Plaster Creek Stewards 7. Developing Engaged Citizens through Place-Based Education 8. Assessing the Problems with Applied Research 9. Reconciling the Human-Nature Relationship through On-the-Ground Restoration 10. Loving Our Downstream Neighbor—A Call for Environmental Justice 11. Engaging Faith Communities 12. Shaping Future Environmental Leaders 13. An Invitation to the Work of Reconciliation Ecology Everywhere Notes Bibliography Index
